taiwan

Now I know what it feels like to be illiterate... well, more like illiterate and mute. The other day I was at a restaurant, and when it was my turn to order all I knew how to do was point at different pictures on the menu and say "can I have this?", haha.

I've always wondered how different I'd be if I had grown up in Asia. The culture and language (does one influence the other?) certainly would have made me a different person. But more importantly, the set of people I could relate to would be completely different. I'm sure there are people here I could probably be good friends with if they had only grown up in the states; right now, though, my relationships with them are limited to the superficial-type. Not that this is an incredible tragedy (it's not like I'm super social and have deep relationships with everyone back home), but the idea that some people are fundamentally "off-limits", to me anyway, is weird? Although really, personality differences often create larger barriers than any cultural differences could.